Jackson can see in trainers’ eyes that McFadden not back yet

As he does every day, Raiders coach Hue Jackson checks in with the team’s medical staff to see if McFadden can return to practice after missing eight games.

“I check in with them and I just look in their eyes, and I can tell myself,” Jackson said Wednesday. “I just go the other way. I just go the other way.”

Jackson, though, insists that McFadden is “getting much closer” to returning. That’s what McFadden tells him, plus Jackson can see it in the trainers’ expression.

“It’s better,” Jackson said. “That expression’s much better, but it’s just not where it needs to be. It’s not that, ‘Here we go.’ But we’re getting there, though. And he is more confident. So we’re getting closer, but we’re not there yet, and that’s OK.”